Shapes up as Chaplin's most startling, most invigorating movie: its icy temperature is positively bracing after the hot syrup of his earlier work.
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06/24/06
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
96 %
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Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 23
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 47 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin abandoned his "Little Tramp" persona for this dark comedy about a man driven to murder. Like so many others, bank clerk Monsieur Verdoux loses his job during the Great Depression -- and can't find another. Because he has an... [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Martha Raye, Isobel Elsom, Marilyn Nash
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Reviews for Monsieur Verdoux
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Top Critic Decidedly not Chaplin's best-loved movie, but an especially provokative one, that boasts both his typical humour and a darker, politicised streak.
05/24/03
Top Critic Perfection? Arguably not; Verdoux has clunky moments and some flat casting, but with an able assist from the great comedian Martha Raye, Chaplin's latter-day greatness is readily apparent.
07/11/08
Monsieur Verdoux is the spirit of modernity taken to its darkest extreme. It may be immortal.
06/11/08
In its uncanny depiction of a weakling whose crimes pale against those of the war-mad society around him, it’s a near masterpiece.
06/09/08
Chaplin generates little sympathy. His broad-mannered antics, as a many-aliased fop on the make for impressionable matrons.
05/13/08
Top Critic As it is, Monsieur Verdoux is a curiosity with flashes of brilliance, but definitely not one of Chaplin's best.
05/13/08
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Gives one a greater sense of Chaplin's political breadth from his previous work.
03/02/07
The intensely felt social criticism that audiences had seen growing in Modern Times and especially The Great Dictator is elevated to an astonishing level of sarcasm and subversive irony.
04/14/06
Truly great Chaplin film, seldom seen, about love, war, and murder. And it's a comedy too.
03/31/06
A fine black comedy, not one of Chaplin's best, but still offers some illuminating moments.
05/14/04
An engrossingly wry and paradoxical film, screamingly funny in places, sentimental in others, sometimes slow and devoted to an unusually serious and sobering argument.
05/20/03
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